Rust generates huge earnings for Garry’s Mod creator

21 January 2014

By Rick de Klerk

Rust never shined so brightly.

With the NAG community’s love for DayZ, you might have passed on its more rustic younger brother, Rust, which chronicles groups of naked savages beating each other with rocks while trying to building immense wooden strongholds. Given the success of DayZ, you might wonder how much traction this PvP survival genre has, rocks or not.

Asked whether Facepunch Studios has plans to adjust the price of Rust in the future, Newman was unequivocal: “None at the moment, no. I’d feel kind of cheeky asking any more for it, really. Maybe that will change a year or so down the line, but for now it’s not changing. Right now it seems like a good price to stick at.”

Delving into more immediate concerns for Rust going forward, Newman foresees more dramatic random events, cataclysmic natural disasters like earthquakes, tornadoes, and dinosaurs (yessssssss), the removal of the zombies to distinguish itself from that already saturated genre, and dealing with hacks that are souring new players’ initial experiences.

Looks like real fun. Though I’m still not sure how I’m feeling about the fact that your body can be killed even when you’re logged off. Okay I would have understand if you needed to find shelter before logging off…but all your hard work disappearing even though you’re not logged in? meh…
Still excited though.

Rick de Klerk

Really? I wasn’t aware you could die while logged out of the game. That’s pretty intense.

XCal1bur

I went to the official site and it was mentioned a couple of times in the forums through the getting started pages. Don’t know if it will be in the final version, but seriously it makes me dread the idea. Would make it more realistic though.

Alex Rowley

Haven’t quite decided on whether to get this or Day Z. I gotta say the mention of Dinosaurs is awesome though.

Rick de Klerk

Hmmm, personally, I’m not completely sold on Rust – it looks quite janky at this point. Similarly, the DayZ stand-alone reportedly has a lot of bugs and issues at the moment.